More Passengers Fly

DOMESTIC carriers flew 21.71 million passengers in October, rising 18 percent from a year ago, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said yesterday.

The growth was 0.7 percentage points faster than that of September, the CAAC said on its Website.

The airlines carried 456,548 tons of cargo, a jump of 20.3 percent, compared with a 24.7 percent increase in September.

In the first 10 months of this year, they carried 192 million passengers, a growth rate of 19.8 percent, and 3.53 million tons of cargo, up 2.9 percent.

Guangzhou-based China Southern Airlines, the country's largest carrier, said yesterday that it flew 6.13 million passengers last month, rising 11.6 percent from a year earlier, after a 10.6 percent increase in September. It also carried 76,680 tons of cargo, a rise of 12.5 percent but it was slower than a 24.8 percent growth a month earlier.

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